To celebrate the holidays and a year of Live Bruce Springsteen releases, an hour of previously unreleased live music from The River Tour in Tempe, AZ Nov. 5, 1980 is now available as free MP3s. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain and mastered at Gateway Mastering, the ten song compilation completes the concert included in the recent box set The Ties That Bind: The River Collection.

Son received a small drone from mystery gifter. Dad got drone working. Small but wow does it fly high. Dad loses control after drone lifts to 150 feet. Drone ends up in jungle. Not retrievable without an army of machete wielding commandos. Son really pleased with dad. Merry Christmas everyone.

My family is out of town which usually means a low key Xmas dinner at my in laws. Not this year though as the in laws and the Bizzarro decided to combine Xmas dinners. That means we'll have 20-25 loud ass, possibly drunk Italians all crammed in to a couple of rooms. I'm bringing my own bourbon. And possibly walking down the street to Greg's parents house for a smoke break with Jolly Joe Kickass.